[Virtio-fs] [PATCH v3 5/5] tools/virtiofsd: xattr name mappings: Simple 'map'

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Stefan Hajnoczi (stefanha at redhat.com) wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 07:02:09PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote:
> > +static XattrMapEntry *parse_xattrmap_map(const char *rule,
> > +                                         XattrMapEntry *map,
> > +                                         size_t *nentries)
> > +{
> > +    char sep = *rule++;
> > +    const char *tmp;
> > +    char *key;
> > +    char *prefix;
> > +    XattrMapEntry tmp_entry;
> > +
> > +    /* At start of 'key' field */
> > +    tmp = strchr(rule, sep);
> 
> Missing sep == '\0' check. The strchr(3) man page says:
> 
>   The terminating null byte is considered part of the string, so that if
>   c is specified as '\0', these functions return a pointer to the
>   terminator.
> 
> So the code in this patch will eventually access beyond the end of the
> string:
> 
>   rule = tmp + 1; <-- tmp is already at the NUL terminator

Ah yes, I've got the check in the main routine but not in the _map case;
OK I'll fix that up.

Dave

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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert at redhat.com / Manchester, UK